2142 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 896

Law 377, 79th Congress, known and hereinafter desig-
nated as the "Federal Airport Act", or any amendment
thereof, or any other Act of Congress unless the project
has been first approved by the Commission. No such
municipality shall directly accept, receive, receipt for, or
disburse any funds granted by the United States under
the Federal Airport Act, but it shall designate the Com-
mission as its agent and in its behalf to accept, receive,
receipt for and disburse such funds. It shall enter into an
agreement with the Commission prescribing the terms and
conditions of such agency in accordance with federal laws,
rules and regulations and applicable laws of this State.
Provided, however, that nothing contained in this paragraph
shall be taken or construed to prevent any municipality,
which has an Aviation Commission or authority in exist-
ence at the time this Act is passed, engaging in the build-
ing, constructing, operating or maintaining of any airport
or air navigation facility from applying for, accepting,
receiving, receipting for and disbursing any funds granted
by the United States under the Federal Airport Act, or
other Act of Congress, upon such terms and conditions as
are or may be prescribed by the laws of the United States
and any rules or regulations made thereunder.

86. (State Airports.)

(a) (Establishment, Operation, Maintenance.) The
Commission is authorized on behalf of and in the name
of the State, out of appropriations and other funds avail-
able for such purposes, to plan, establish, construct, en-
large, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect,
and police airports and air navigation facilities, either
within or without the State, including the construction,
installation, equipment, maintenance and operation at such
airports of buildings and other facilities for the servicing
of aircraft or for the comfort and accommodation of air
travelers. For such purposes the Commission may, by pur-
chase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation or otherwise, ac-
quire property, real or personal, or any interest therein
including easements in airport hazards or land outside the
boundaries of an airport or airport site, as are necessary
to permit safe and efficient operation of the airports or
to permit the removal, elimination, obstruction-marking or
obstruction-lighting of airport hazards, or to prevent the
establishment of airport hazards. In like manner the Com-
mission may acquire existing airports and air navigation
facilities, provided, however, it shall not acquire or take
over any airport or air navigation facility owned or con-